Lancaster jnteltigencer. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1871$ The Evans Case. We publish in another column the opinion of Judge Pearson, discharging George G. Evans from arrest on the criminal complaint against him for, em bezzlement. The Judge decides that Evans' conduct in this .matter, about which there has been much ado, has not been criminal, although the charge which he has made for his services, a commission of ten per cent. ; is exces sive and much more than he is entitled to. He says that the Auditor-General and the State Treasurer committed a grave error when they settled Evans' account without allowing him any thing for his services; they should have allowed him a reasonable sum and demanded from him the balance remain ing. In concluding, the Judge is severe upon the State officers who brought this criminal:prosecution,for allowing them selves to be influenced to do so by pub lic clamor. That is the way Judge Pearson puts it, although he, as well as everybody else, knows that Bob Mackey and the Cameron-eßwd were themselves the authors of all the public clamor and started it for the purpose of injuring Geary. The Judge evidently does not train in the Cameron Band. We think his opinion in the Evans case is right; it corresponds with what has been our impression of the case.— Evans and his friends have doubtless combined to get a large sum from the State for services which were not worth a tithe of what was &mended, but they have pevertheless so conducted their 'operations as not to have subjected themselves to any penalties of the law. It will strike every one that the tables have been somewhat turned on the State Treasurer. He has been prosecut ing Evans for a supposed crime, which is now ascertained not to he a crime; and meanwhile, by the failure of C. T. Yerkes, Jr., Mr. Mackey himself is pub licly shown to have been criminally guilty in depositing for his own proflt—it is said he got six per cent. in terest on his deposit—a large amount of the moneys of the State with a specu lating broker. He claims to have paid hack to the State all that was lost, but did he pay hack the six per cent? How does the man who was horrified at Evans charging the. State ten per cent. for col lecting money for it, under a law seem ingly authorizing that charge, reconcile it to his sensitive conscience to charge the State six per cent. for the simple custody of its moneys when the law for bids that charge? Radicalism and Its Leaders It is at once a curious and instructive study, to notethe changes which Radi calism has undergone, and through which it is daily passing, both as to its avowed principles and its recognized leaders. It jaki.been gradually drifting from bad to worse from the beginning. As first established, even, it contained many germs of evil ; but it put forward no doctrines so palpably subversive of the Constitution and laws—so openly at variance with the fundamental princi ples of justice and right, as to shock, as they now do, the understandings and sensibilities of all honest men. Had it shown its cloven foot, its progress would have been slow, if not at once checked. So of its leaders—they were at first men of some character, intellectually and morally, though tinged with fanatical ideas which rendered them dangerous counsellors, and led them to disregard, more or less, the constitutional 'guaran tees of the people. Seward and Chase, of the more moderate, and Garrison and Phillips of the more extreme schools, were all men of brains and exemplary morals in private life—men who were calculated to give strength and tone and impulse to their party. These men and others like them, but of less prominence, built up the Republican party and made it a power in the land. With its in crease in numbers, and when it began to revel in its overwhelming strength, its inherent vices began to develop, and its original errors in principle were magnified, and new and previously un thought-of errors were devised and boldly avowed. This fact should teach us how resolutely the first departure from correct principle should be resist ed. The entering wedge, which at first exhibits scarce a rent in the body poli tic, gradually driven home, rends asunder the most solid fabric,and leaves hut the splintered and shattered frag ments of a once beautiful and perfect whole, as was the Constitution of our fathers. As the Radical party became more radical—as it progressed in evil and boldness—it began to throw off its old leaders, and adopt new ones, who coun seled the most extreme measures; and the men who had first breathed the breath of life into it and made it what it was, were unable to control, much less extinguish, the, fire which their own hands Lad kindled. 'they gave place to men of no private or public character—men of little intellect, but great capacity for evil—men of diseased bodies and minds, degraded, reckless, foul, with appetites insatiate for plun der and spoil—such men as Morton, Butler, Chandler, Cameron, Drake, and others of equal infamy, but less noto riety. Th'e worst men of the party are its leaders, the smallest, the meanest, the most vile. It may be proclaimed to the Radical camp, "'These are your gods, 0, Israel I" Both fmusing,and Disgusting It is, in one sense, a very amusing thing to hear the Radical leaders and the satelites who echo their voices, talk about economy, taxes, etc., etc. Where, in the whole country, where they have had sway since the conclusion of the late war, have they not run the States which they controlled, into debt, and increased the taxes, and enlarged ex penses, and filled the land with all the evils of bad and corrupt legislation?— We say, in one sense, their prating is amusing. In another, it is disgusting. Having obtained power, they have riot ed in the profits of office, made them selves rich ut — the expense of .the tax payers, burihened the people with their exactions—and now coolly turn round and expatiate on reform, retrenchment, economy, and , llght taxes! The force of political impudence can no farther go, than is exhibited in their present posi tion in reference to these subjects. The Harmonious In lowa The recent election In lowa resulted, as everybody knew it would, in an enor 111,OUB Republican majority; and the question now is, whether it is to be fol lowed by the return to the Senate of Mr. Harlan, the Grant candidate and advocate of Son Domingo annexation, or that of the Hon. W. H. Allison or the Hon. James Y. Wilson, ludepend .ent Republicans. The indications are that Harlan and Grant will be beaten. Another Innocent "Mystified." Radical ingratitude has had another •exemplification, in one of its victims of misplaced confidence. The poor, tnno .-zent Radical City Treasurer of Phila delphia lent some orhis honest Radical friends about $400,000 of the people's money, and •uow they won't pay him back. Of course he will claim that his accounts are "mystified," which is asuf licient excuse in Radical eyes why a man shouldn't look out at the world from behind a jail-wall. A New Bureau. It is announced that a new Bureau is to be established in the Treasury De partment—the Bureau of Commerce. The President has just returned from Maine, and has doubtless been impress ed with the great increase In ship-build ing and the rapid development of our commerce in that region. THE IA A NOASTER WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1871. Dare They Follow the Etalliple The Radical journals, foremost among which is the Philadelphia Preto, have been loud in the denunciation of ,the frauds of Tammany,and prate with sanc timonious rejoicing at the prospect of the speedy punishment which is to fol low their exposure . There is one feat ure in the exposure of these proceedings of which Democrats may well be proud. In the Rochester Convention they were unstintedly denounced, and the Tam many Ring ruled out. Such prominent Democrats as Samuel J. Tilden, Chair man of the State Central Committee, openly denounced those connected with them as unworthy of fellowship; and under the appointment of * Governor Hoffman, Charles O'Connor has been selected to prOsecute the offenders, while he himself accepts the nomination of the Refornlers for the Assem bly, in obedience to a unanimous call and a sense of duty. Well may the Prom proclaim that " these are : solemn warnings to the people of other States . and cities. Dare the Radical leaders emulate the efample thus furnished them? If so, let them arraign Grant for his alleged complicity with untold frauds upon the revenue, by his bribe taki n g favoritism. Let them investigate the affairs of the Seneca Stone Quarry, and the means by which he and prom inent officials became stockholders in so worthless, and yet so profitable a con cern. Let them illuminate the gold speculations of Corbin, Mrs. Grant, Fisk and Gould, by which the public were swindled and the favored coterie en riched. Let the !rands of Murphy, Evans, Bailey, Yerkes, Mackey, and thousands of others, be brought to light and punished. If they are sincere in their detestation of Tammany frauds, let them turn their attention to Philadel phia; and when rascalities, far surpass ing even those of Tammany in their magnitude and enormity. are discover ed, as they are sure to be, let them show the moral courage of New York Demo crats in denouncing them, and find, if they can, some honest, daring spirits like Oovernor Hoffman and Charles O'Connor in bringing the offenders to 'mince. Let them do this, instead of fraternizing with such scoundrels as Murphy, as they did at Syracuse, ere they turn up their Radical snoots in hypocritical horror of wrong in others. A Fiendish Mania There are times when mankind seem to be seized with an ungovernable and insatiate desire for the horrible, and they apparently revel in scenes of deso lation, carnage and bloodshed. The smoke and blood of battle serve to do away with all fear, and to stimulate even the most cowardly and timid to acts of recklessness and daring. u So it is, but in a dill rent degree of human ex citement, with those who are brought into contact with, or are sufferers by, pestilence, famine or fire. Surrounded by death in its most horrible forms, men become crime-hardened and steeled to pity. The groans of the dying, the fu neral procession, and the sable palls of suffering soon lose their tendency to shock the nerves, or touch the heart. A striking illustration of this is fur nished us at present. The disasters of Chicago, Wisconsin and Minnesota seem to have stirred up the demon natures of men, and excited in them a desire to see carnage extended, desolation made even more desolate, and suffering and want still more heart=rending and gaunt. These human jackals, many of them fresh from the scenes where the fire-fiend and the angel of death held high carnival, have spread themselves through the country, bearing the incen diaries' brand. A love of pillage, In most cases, prompts them; but there are, doubtless, others who become incendiaries and assassins through having their passions inflamed by ac counts of these disasters and crimes.— The mania to burn is now peculiarly exhibited. There is scarce a locality where they are not at work—ln cities, remote localities and towns; and to such an extent are the fiendish depredations carried on, that no one can close his eyes in sleep, divested of the fear that he may not be aroused at any moment by the startling alarm of " lire !" dad having no security that his own prem ises may not be enveloped in flames. There is something peculiar in this prevalent fiendish mania, and it fur nishes a theme for much interesting philosophical speculation and study. Weather• Seers There are always to he found those who indulge in confident prognostica tions as to the weather, and even sur pass the almanac-makers in the wis dom of their predictions. The would-be wise among the weather-mongers now say there is every indication of an early and severe Winter; but, then, they say so nearly every season—so do the coal-dealers, and forthwith add a dollar to the price. Among the "sure" indications of a severe Winter in the rural districts, is the immense crop of chestnuts, hickory-nuts, beech and but ter-nuts, from which it appears that Nature, fore-knowing the coming of a particularly long as well as unusually cold Winter, kindly provides an extra supply of food for squirrels and other rodents, to say nothing of the vast droves of hogs In sonic parts of the South and Southwest, that live almost upon mast. Then, too, hunters say, that animals are more thickly furred than usual this Fall, showing that Rey nard, Wolf and their fellows know ex actly what kind of a coat to get for the approaching season. Already in some sections, Winter has tittered its warn ings. There have been severe snow storms in Omaha and Wyoming; snow in Maine and New Hampshire; snow squalls in Boston and elsewhere in New England. With all this comes an as sertion In an Eastern paper that "most of last Winter's large crop of Kennebec ice still remains In store." This is al most beyond belief. If it is true, it is monstrous—infamous. To think of the alleged scarcity of ice in the past few Summers as an excuse for monopo ly and extortion scarcely known in any other branch of business. Well ; if the generally-predicted cold Winter Is com ing, it brings. at leak, the one consola tion that there will be plenty of ice. which ought to be sold at reasonable rates next Summer. Democratic Victory An election took place in West Vir-' ginia, on Thursday, which resulted in a sweeeprng Democratic victory. The . Wheeling Registor, of Friday says:• "At the time of writing we have re ceived returns ' from seven of the ten townships in this county—sufficient to show that the entire Democratic ticket is triumphantly elected. There is no doubt whatever that there will be a arge Democratic majority in the Con vention, and in each branch of the \ Legislature of the State, thciugh few ac tual returns haveyet been received. A despatch from Martinsburg Informs us that Berkeley county has elected the entire Democratic ticket there by over two hundred and fifty majority; about one hundred more than was expected or than was given in that county for the cal.l of the Convention. Butler and lbe ylce-Presldeney General Butler lula .made known to hi( friends his preference for Vice-Pres ident. He thinks Fenton should be nominated with Grant, which would effect such a union of the two , fac- Bone in New York as to insure the State for the ticket, since Conklin and his followers are already pledged to Grant and could not hold off, even if Fenton were on the ticket. He ,thinks this plan would take all the life out of Greeley's movements against Grant. We ere sure Fenton would not object to sych an arrangement, and we don't see why Conkling should. A Higher Church and a Higher law Theodore Tilton, the shining light and leading representative of the more advanced wing, of the Radical partyi wants a church established by legal en actment, which shall embody his pecu liar religious creed. He says we have scores of sects and churches in this country, and a vast deal of diffused re ligious sentiments, faith and ideas, but that we have no organization " which perfectly meets the religious needs of our people, and furnishes the moral and spiritual culture they suffer for the want of." It refers to the organization of our business " in the most energetic forms that the world has ever known ;" to our distinct and unique political insti tutions, and to our school system, all of which represent the genius of the American people—while " our religion is chaos—forty denominations clamor ing and contending for supremacy, and each striving to build itself up on the ruins of all the rest ;" adding that " in the face of all their pretensions, and in spite of all their efforts at propagand ism, two-thirds of our people are un churched, living outside of all direct religious instruction, more completely isolated from all religious culture and influence than any portion of the peo ple of India, China, Turkey or Japan." Against this state of things the saint ly Tilton prgtests, and demands a I church which shall embody American religious sentiments and ideas. He also complains that most of the sects in this country are off-shoots from religious bodies in the old world, and thatmost of our theology is an importation. A sin gular complaint, indeed, that our Amer ican religion is an importation from monarchical countries! Why, the Chris tian system, the New Testament, came from the East. Jesus Christ, the author and founder of our faith, was born in Bethlehem, a city of Judea. It was from that far-off Eastern country that the Christian world derived Its religion, and those who introduced the Christian system here, themselves derived it from the East. Does Tilton wish, through the influence of the "Golden Aage," to see established a new sect of Ameri cab origin, which shall conform to the Radical idea of a new God and a higher law ^. We have already so frittered it away, that we have no Constitution— no rights under it, which are respected ; and it is only necessary, In order to com plete the measure of our humiliation and degradation, that the Radical high er law shall be forced upon us as our religion, and the new God and new Bi ble of the party be installed in the place of the religion of the meek and lowly Jesus. The Revolving Government " Swinging round the circle" is a favorite pass-time of,theßadical govern ment, from its insipid and dottish head to the insignificant subordinate. To such an extent is this Gipsey propensity of the President indulged that it has been well remarked that the peregrina tions of` all the Presidents, from Wash ing to Johnson, would not aggregate half as many miles as tidy man Grant has traveled. There Is something piti ful in the childish eagerness with which the Chief Magistrate of the nation avails himself of every opportunity to escape from the duties imposed by his office. No occasion is too trivial for him to jump 'at. lie goes to County Fairs, Sunday- School Exhibitions, the laying of cor ner-stones, whether of a monument, fire-engine house, or jail. He rushes away from Washington with the eager ness of a school-boy,who runs home on a holiday, and mixes with horse-jockeys and gamblers and other men of low habits, on terms of perfect equality. Thls gipsey propensity is a great and steadily increasingevil ; and If Congress does not visit it with a formal rebuke, it will be, in a measure, responsible for the consequences. It is but a short time ago that at least twenty high officers of the Treasury Department were absent at the same time. Among them were the Sec retary, Assistant Secretary, Register, Comptroller of the Currency, Commis sioner of Internal Revenue, Comtnis sioner of Customs, Solicitor-General, Fifth Auditor, Second Auditor, and nearly all the head of bureaus and chief clerks in the Department. A Radical Tribute The Newark (N. J.) Advertiser, a leading and able Republican journal, pays a deserved compliment to Charles O'Connor, who has been nominated by the New York Democracy for the As sembly. The same tribute has been ex torted from the Republican press in favor of many other distinguished Demo crats, and scarcely a man has been found —certainly not in the Radical ranks— who has held Tammany so at bay, such as Charles O'Connor. Sifted to the bot tom we shall find that the frauds in that City have been committed entirely by individuals of both parties, and that neither Republicans nor Democrats can be held solely responsible while both are equally guilty. " The grand truth, however, stands out in bold relief, that New York has to rely solely upon her Democratic statesmen, lawyers and judges, for the punishment of the thieves and the restoration of the mu nicipal government." This is the ac knowledgement of a leading Radical ournal. Will Grant Heed It? The Grand Jury of Chester county, S. C., composed equally of whites and negroes, are reported to have made a presentment, declaring that after an in vestigation of the alleged out rages, and from their own knowledge of the county, they are compelled to de clare the allegations contained in the President's proclamation of martial law without foundation, and that they must be "the ree.u)t of falsehoods communica ted to him by p.cons equally regard less of good order and the peace of socie ty." And yet Grant will tighten still further the thumb-screws of oppression. queen Victoria and a Regency. The latest cable despatches from Eng land are important as regarciMg the recent developments of insanity by the Queen. The despatch in question states that a council of the Royal Family has, asked Victoria to consent Lo lite es tablishment of a regency under the Prince of tales. The Queen indig nantly refused, as she also did subse quently to append her signature to the public papers laid before her by the Ministers. It is also stated that the Cabinet has discussed the matter of a regency. No Fears of Ureail Scarcity Fears of . a bread-riot in Chicago this Winter, arising from a scarcity of grain, are pronounced groundless by the Post of that city. The suggestion has been made by some Eastern papers, but doubtless only to create the greatest pos dble derangement of the market. The Post says that the actual amount lost will hardly exceed a million and a quarter of bushels, and a healthy and natural bade will soon be resumed. Radical Warfare. The warfare between Greeley and Murphy continues in the columns of the Tribune and Timed. Taking their own testimony these two worthies are as precious a brace of rascals as ev6r ruled the factions of a party. Who can doubt that "peace and harmony" are entirely restored in the Republican Pte'' PRESIDENT Gu.,...rq has issued a pro clamation Betting apart Thursday, the 30th of November, as a day of National Thanksgiving. Pennsilvania'Will give' thanks on the same day. Thanksgiving. Gov. Geary has issued a proclamation setting apart Thursday, the 30th day of November, as a day of Thanksgiving. Philosophical Coolness. Southern journals manifest the most commendable philosophical coolness under the despotic inflictions. to which they have been, and are still being, sub jected by the miserable ride of Grant and his military satraps. They do not run into hysterics and extravagances over the President's proclamation, sus pending martial law in portions of the South, but seem to regard Has a matter of-fact and to-be-looked-for occurrence. Nor do they indulge in much sentiment alism over the value of the habeas cor pus to the citizens—a writ which it re quired centuries of travail and sacrifice to wring from despotism. They have seen—and with deep concern—the steady encroachments of usurpation, :.id ob served each step towards the establish ment of centralism by means of military power, and were fully prepared for the unrighteous movement which has been recently made. It was part of the pro gramme marked out by the Radical lead ers, of whom Morton is chief, months ago. The President is the mere instru ment employed by such men as Morton, Chandler, and Scott ; they do the think ing and devilish planning, and the exe cution is devolved on him. Grant has not a thought beyond force—that he can alone _understand, and when his direc tors instruct him to use i t,he does it with alacrity. The testimony upon which the Pres ident's proclamation is based, is of the Most flimsy character, the merest sub terfuge, got up to order, composed of falsehoods and exaggerations, and de signed, simply, to further the designs of the dothinant party. That them are unlawful deeds done in South Carolina is not denied; but that their number or criminality exceeds those done among a population of equal size in Philadelphia, New York, or Boston, is denied ; and as to the existence of Ku-Klux as an armed and organized body of men, banded to gether to defy the laws of the land, and to create " revolution," it is the shallow est humbug ever employed to justify a flagitious wrong. The Richmond Enquirer says : " Some of the Northern papers evince ex citement over this despotic proceeding, as if they were surprised at it; or as if until now they had not comprehended the full meaning of a suspension of habeas corpus. The New York World discerns in it the purpose to su bd ue the whole country,North and South to the mastership of Grant. The experiment is first made at the South be cause that section is without friends, and because the stolid Northern masses will be pleased rather than shocked to witness the humiliations and punishments inflicted up on it. A Suggistion and Invitation In view of the operations of the Con gressional Smelling Committee in the South, with a determination to nose out Ku-Klux outrages, Southern papers are making valuable efforts to aid them. The Augusta, ( Ga. ) Chronicle says, with reference to the commencement of the investigations at Atlanta, that the time chosen is opportune, although an earlier day would have been prefer able. Several important Fairs remain to be held, which will call together large assemblages of the masses. The State Fair at Macon, the Cotton States Fair at Augusta, and the Savannah Indus trial Fair, will afford this Ku-Klux Committee an opportunity of gaining more correct information, by inter course and personal observation, re specting the condition of the people, morally, socially and politically, than all the affidavits that can ho procured. The suggestion is further made, that the presiding officers of these several associations extend to these distinguish ed inquisitors a polite invitation to be present at these respective meetings. At Macon, the committee can inspect the masses from Southwestern Georgia, and form a fair estimate of the extent of the oppressions and " barbarities " which attend their social and political condition. A similar opportunity will be offered at Savannah touching the sea-board region. At the Augusta Cot ton States Fair, the whole of the re nowned Fifth Congressional District will be present, and a large concourse from that unfortunate region of South Carolina, where martial law prevails, will be in attendance. They are promised a cordial and kind reception should they attend. Let them do it, and see Southern life as it is, and not through Radical carpet-bag, scala wag Ku-Klux lenses, as they have been doing through motives of policy. Tribute to Democrats The New York Sun, one of the ablest and most independent among the Re publican journals, in speaking of the reform movement in that city and the men who are heading it, pays a compliment to them, with a rebuke to Grant and his corrupt officials.— It says: "The , people of the State should not forget ;that; Mr. Green is a Democrat, and has always been such, and that he was placed in the responsible and onerous position he now occupies through the efforts of other prominent Democrats, such as Mr. Tilden and Mr. Ilavemeyer. If the Democracy are responsible for the rob beries of Tammany, they should always have full credit for the judicious and effective reforms they have initiated. The party which produces and puts in office such men as Andrew H. Green, and which lays the axe at the root of political corruption as he has done,can not be so utterly depraved us partisan writers are wont to declare. Besides, has President Grant or Secretary Bout well, or Collector Murphy, or all of them together, ever said or done any thing concerning the reform of the civil service to be compared with this circu lar of the Deputy-Comptroller." Where Did Ite•Get Tt ? Senator Colliding:, of New York, leader of the Murphy wing which so sig nally triumphed over Greeley at Syra cuse, and booted them out of the Con vention, comes to the relief of Grant, and asserts that he has not been enrich ed by presents from office seeking aspir ants. Well,witere did Lieg..et his wealth? Previous to the war, and at its outbreak, he had not means sufficient to purchase a Colonel's outfit, and his own relatives refused to aid him. Now he is worth thousands upon thousands. lie owns a farm in Missouri, worth $lOO,OOO, and stocked to the value of one-half that sum--refg estate in Galena, in Wash ington, and other plac . sc—an interest of $20,000 in a profitable stone•roarry i which he makes pay by his influence, with government contractors—a cottage at Long Branch, and untold et ceteras, which swell the aggregate to the wealth of a millionaire. Did Ile save it out of his aalary of $25,000 per year? Or is he possessed of up Aladdin's lamp, through the aid of which lie asp convert com mon pebbles into gems, and trap.eform his cast-off linen into multiplied green backs? Tell us the secret of it, Mr.. Roscoe Con'4ling, if your Radical Presi- 1 dent is not a present-taking, bribe-ac cepting Chief .I.l.xecutiva. I Sensible Suggestion Au exchange truthfully remarks: There is much time, labor and expense required to get out the vote every year, on election day. Active Democrats de serve praise for their efforts in ; this di rection. But a much more effective way of accomplishing the object is to get a good Democratic paper into the house of each voter. We have made inquiry frequently, and find that very few of our subscribers ever miss the election. It is the men who don't take any paper who are the absentees on election day. Beath of Senator Connell The Eon. Geo. Connell,member of the State Sehate'from the Fourth Philadel phia District, died on irlday mornink , at 5 o'clock at hii late residence, Sixtrfirit! street and Darbylload, West Philadel-, phia. Ile had been In failing health for some time. Ku-Hlux Bag-a-boot—How They Are Manufactured. The following article from the Salem (N. C.,) Press, will explain itself. We would not advert to the subject, were it not for our positive knowledge of the wholesale manufacture of just such sen sational electioneering storiesas that al luded to, containing not one iota of truth, which are circulated- broadcast, and often without contradiction, among the people of the North. Any thought- . ful, sensible reader can at once dis cern the tendency and effect of ouch stories, woven with the most plausible Ingenuity, and related with the confident air which is calculated to Import to them the semblance of truth. That photograph,with its paraphernalia of unearthly stamp, representing the Ku-Klux grand sanhedrim, has been made to do good service among the dupes of Radicalism, and has no doubt, given the night-mare to many an or thodox disciple of that peculiar school, and thrown into hysterical spasms sympathizing " fraus,'' disturbed the slumbers of tape-worm youngsters, and seriously interfered with the appetites of Radical gormandizers. Hop-goblins are nothing to be compared with the Ku-Klax. Ghosts are their betters; for, although they alike came forth at the witching hour of night, when grave-yards yawn and give up their dead, the latter assume more tangible shape and perform more diabolical l i pranks. Seriously—it is high time the effect of such tom-foolery bad gone by. It had its effect for a season ; Radical tri umphs were alone achieved through its instrumentality; the dupes, as well as those whosodexterously dealt the cards, are becoming tired of the game—al though it has been a winning one—and the sober, returning senses of the people will discover to them the transparency of the cheat, and induce a counteraction in the favor of right: If any man doubt the existence of an armed, thievish and dangerous organiza tion of men in the Southern States, known MS Ku-Klux, lot him call at this office and be convinced to the contrary. We have in p ar g temporary rap representingpossession l band of arge in their unearthly garb, taken by a photographer in a court room in North Carolina, the members iu question having turned State's evidence. The photograph was brought here by the family of 11. 11. &wheat, Prosecuting Attorney of the State of North Carolina, who are paying a vi.it to:relatives in this city.—Laneasier, (Pa-) Express. If the Express is not too much " warped by party rage" to do the honest thing by its readers, it will inform them that the photograph in question, or its original, was taken, not In any "court room iu North Carolina," but in Watson's photograph gallery in Raleigh; that the parties rep resented in the picture, some of whom are white and some black, aro not mem bers of the Ku-Klux who had "turned State's evidence," but are all Radicals of the deepest, darkest dye; that the disguises in which they are arrayed were made in Raleigh to the order of Joseph G. Hester, United States detective, and were never owned or worn by any parties charged with Ku Kluxing; and, finally, that the whole thing 71f gotten up Radical Carolina, aided and by Attorney-General Akertnan and Judge Bond, iu order to make political capital by appealing to the passions, prejudices and sympathies of the Northern people. The Express can a Id, if it has a mind to do so, that Wm. S. Mitchell, colored, alias Chick Boots, who is one of the loyal gentlemen represented in the picture, was arrested in Raleigh last Saturday afternoon for steal ing a coat front one of the stores in that city, and is now in prison in default of $2OO bail. Thousands upon thousands of these slan derous, villainous pictures are being circu lated throughout the North, and honest people may think that they represent real K u-K I u x. Knotty Question for the Judges The temperance question has assumed one new phase. In Massachusetts the people meet, as they have elsewhere, with all matter of difficulties in their at tempts to enforce the prohibitory liquor laws. At Concord lately a witness sum moned ou behalf of the State refused to testify, on the ground that he was not bound to criminate himself. It might be shown, the lawyers held, that by offering to pay for liquor he had in duced the commission of a crime, thus becoming an accomplice,and liable to the same punishment as the person selling the liquor. After a long argument the Court declined to compel the witness to testify, as the question raised was so important that it should go before the full bench for a decision, which cannot be reached before March next. By that time, probably, the ingenuity of legal fraternity will have discovered something new wherewith to puzzle the Judges. Brightening Skies Ex-Governor Seymour has been nom inated as a candidate for the New York State Legislature. He will accept, and will be elected, as his district is largely Democratic. Never have the Demo crats had such able and distinguished candidates in the field. This fact gives complete assurance of success at the coming election notwithStanding the expose of the Tammany frauds, which were calculated to injure the Democratic party, but which in the end will prove its salvation, from the fact that Demo crats themselves are the ones who have been first and foremost in bringing the scoundrels to punishment. The Latest Mormon Departure Brigham Young Is said to have fled the country, or at least the Territory of Utah, lu order to evade arrest upon an indictment for a murder committed some years ago. The action of the Fe deral courts in finding Hawkins, the polygamist, guilty, and sentencing him to undergo an Imprisonment of three years and pay a tine of $5OO has caused terror in Mormondom, and will doubt less lead to the complete extirpation of the odious system. More Radical Thieves The Washington Evening Star of yes terday says that Hector U. Powell, a iu he Second Auditor's office for the last eight years, 'u'u arrested there by Deputy United States Marshal phil lips, on Tuesday last, charged with frauds on the government, in connection with bounty claims. The amount spec ified is $lO,OOO, but it is rumored that an investigation will show the amount to be over $lOO,OOO. kiln Another Ev-Congressman AV. B. StMies, Su pervisor of Internal Revenue for Ten nessee, was arrested in Washington yes terday, on his arrival from that State. He is charged with defrauding the gov ernment of $60,000. On being arraigned before Commissioner J. J. Johnson, he waLve , J a preliminary examination, and gave bail in MOO for his appearance before the Criminal Court, ;t is said that Powell is concerned in the a 444 alleged fraudulent transactions, Still Another Another embezzlement has been dis covered at Washington, this time in the Freedmen's Bureau, the immaculate institution inan4;e4 by Gen. Howard. The amount is abotit halt a and the guilty party is one General Ballack, who went to Washington a few years ago poor, but is now rich. This dis covery may lead to the unearthing of all the rascalities of the ilureau. Grant and Despotlseti Cassius M. Clay lately made a speech in which he denounced the Grant ad ministration in unsparing terms. Cen tralization, be sajd, js the great, danger. If Grant is re-elected he will annea San Domingo, In spite of the Senate. He added, "The rebellion, itself, was not such a blow at the liberties of the people and the life of the nation as the present Govern m en t. " A Hiss and a Blow The President issued his proclamation of warning on the 12th of October, and proclaimed martial law on the 17th.— The latter proclamation reached South Carolida itiefOre the former had been heard of in many of the localities mopt interested. State ite=n Doylestown has a smar-pot panic. Altoona is to have a new daily paper. A Presbyterian Church is to be estab lished at Quakertown. Hollidaysburg has a tine new atone 'ail. The question of making the bridge at Milton free is being agitated. The Sunbury and Lewistown Rail road will be completed this week. A Pittsburgh lady swallowed a nail and died. Bear-hunting is a favorite pastime with Sullivan countyites. Chicken cholera is prevailing to an alarming extent near Boyertowu. The authorities of Lewistown have forbidden the sale of coal oil at night. It is stated • that General McClellan contemplates residing at Meadville. A Pittsburgh ex-Alderman has been committed to prison on a charge of va grancy. Dogs have to be registered in Harris burg. If they are not they are liable to go to the sausage-makers. There are at present 19 men, 19 wo men, and 4 children, in the German town Poor House. The Reading Masons have taken measures to organize a Masonic reading room. The Elk Democrat reports the killing of a huge bear near Ridgeway, Pa., last week. An Episcopal Church in Pittsburgh is known as the church of the Holy Roos ter. The Hamburg Press says Lenharts villa is happy at the prospect of a new railroad station. The Knights of Pythias in Delaware county, this State, number over 900 members. They have six Lodges. A Clinton county farmer thinks he has discovered coal oil iu a stone quarry on his land. The school directors of Milton have laid a tax of $3,000 to enlarge the Cen tral school-house in that place. Dr. Irvin, who was injured by being thrown from his buggy, in Harrisburg, recently, died on Wednesday. There have been 9.12. cases of small pox and 151 deaths in Philadelphia dur ing the past three weeks. The removal of the railroad shops from Corry to Oil City may now be con sidered as a fixed fact. Forty-one cases of school slate were recently shipped from Danielville, Northampton county, to Japan. Sunbury has the cheapest gas light of any place in the State outside of Pitts burgh—sl per 1000 feet. Rev. John W. Arthur, of the Phila delphia Conference, died at the Insane Asylum, Harrisburg, on the :'lst. The Crane Iron Company, of Cain sauqua, contributed Zaoo to the r, li if of the Chicago sufferers. The Saucon Iron Company, at Heller town, shipped for the week eliding Oct. ith, 376 tons of iron. Chester is going to give a number of miscellaneous entertainments for the benefit of the Wisconsin sufferers. A hornet's nest, enclosed in a glass case, was among the attractions at the Lehighton (Carbon county) fair. The old system of electing township and local officers in the Spring will go into effect again next March. Ralph Williamson had his hand se verely cut with a circular saw at the Glass Works, Norristown, on Friday. The Lewisburg Lumber Manufactur ing Company, was awarded a bronze medal fer exhibition of school-desks at the State Fair. Herman Bueschel, of Bethlehem, Northampton county, weighed 370 pounds a year ago. On Sunday last he died at the weight of 110. A woman named Henrietta Knapp, wife of Dr. Knapp, was run over and killed by the cars at Girard, Erie coun ty, on Monday last. A little girl named Weaver, :three years of age, living in Paradise, Clear field county, was burned to death the other day by upsetting a kerosene lamp. A. K. McClure, C. R. Kneass, James N, Marks and H. W. Gray are among the strongest candidates for the Fourth District Senatorship. In a fight at Mahauoy Plane, Schuyl kill county, a few evenings since, one man had an eye completely knocked out of his head. Mrs. Lauder, the actress, was staying at the Tremont House, in Chicago, dur ing the lire, and lost one of the finest wardrobes in the country. The census returns report that the amount of land under cultivation in Pennsylvania is 11,515,965 acres, and the total value of land $1,043,451,962. The work of laying down the rails for the double track on the North Penn. has been commenced between Lansdale and North Wales. A young lady in Oil City, Pa., while wringing out a dress, ran a needle through the palm of her hand, and died in five minutes. The corner-stone of the new Catholic Church at Corry was laid on Sunday with appropriate ceremonies, by Bishop P. D. W. Hankey has been appointed County Superintendent of Common Schools for Adams county, vice J. How ard Wert, resigned. John Clayton, an esteemed citizen of Bethel township, Delaware county, died on the 16th. He was the father of Gov. Clayton, of Arkansas. Rev. (leo. T. Keller, of Easton, has received a call to the pulpit of the Pres byterian Church at Tunkhannock. Mr. K. we learn has accepted the call. William Coolbaugh, son of Judge Coolbaugh, of Middle Smithfield, Mon roe county, is said to lose half a million by the Chicago fire. The Rev. John Ermentrout, of Kutz town, and Rev. Geo. D. Wolff, of Nor ristown, of the German Reformed Church, have recently become Roman Catholics. Mr. Leet Dagg, of Franklin township, Washington eounty, planted this sea son Ii) pumpkin seeds, which produced four two-horse wagon-loads of pump kins. The editor of the Allentown Daily News has had the pleasure of tasting some strawberries of a second crop, grown in the garden of Mr. John Hagen bach, of that place. A young man named Irvin Saylor, of East Coventry township, Chester co., was accidentally shot by a companion whilst out gunning on Saturday. His injuries are not of a serious nature. A fire In Ashland, Schuylkill county, destroyed four dwellings on Saturday night. One Loy wa4 killed tool another fatally injured hy cln , f,lli ..f a ehiui lIVV, In Philadelphia, la-it noel:, Sarah Henry, of 14, I, ail the back of her head scalped by her hair catching in a stel4m sewMg machine. :The is badly One woinßil indulged In ..I,e Li,icasure of whipping six others of her sex ut Ma hallo.), Plane, Schuylkill county, the other day. This is one of "women's rights" with a vengeance. Dan Rice is on another "farewell tour" throughout the State, with his cir cus establishment. With the exception of John B. Gough, Dan is the greatest farewellist this country ever .produced. And now another Snyder county marl IC:Ls procured El:turnip measuring 24 inches in circumference and weighing O pounds and 2 ounces. It must be a good season for turnips in that county. Theo. Hill, Esq., formerly Republi can Representative of the Union, Sny der and Lycoming district, has been elected Prothonotary of Lycoming county. The new diocese of Pennsylvania compriseS thirty-seven counties, con taining an area of 2.5,4:5 EVILlye with a population of 1r.113,400. 441 the counties in this part of the State are embraced in it. The store and residence of Levi Wolf ensberger, at Mt. iEtna, Berke county, had a narrow escape from fire a few days ago. Tapping oil in the cellar after night with a lamp too near was the cause of the occurrence. Damage slight. As Mr. Michael Miller, of trauss town, was about driVing from his 'tan nery, near that'village, yesterday' morn ing, his horse ran away and threw him from the wagon. He was severely bruised .7,boiit the head and body by the fall. The richest copper ore we ever KIT, says the Gettysburg Coinpiter, was shown us the other day by Mr. D. D. Russell, the present owner of the Wat son farpi in Hamiltondan township, this coupt,y. Feeeral specimens he esti mated at 8 to SO tier cep( The Doylestown Democrat reporrs a party of four gunners who started up a rabbit, and when within a range of little less 'than thirty yards, the quartette fired eight shots from their double-bar rel guns—and the rabbit was as well as ever. George W. Webber, a butcher, near Stouchsburg, had his knee pan and fron tal bone broken during the latter part of last week. He was on the road selling meat, when the horse attached to the wagon became wild and unmanageable, and ran away. Gleanings. Texas groans underatax of $0,000,000. Long Branch is to have a new hotel. The Canadians have begun fox-hunt ing. A new socialist paper has appeared in Berlin. I IHighwaymen abound in East Ten nessee. Rich discoveries of gold have been made in Peru and Chili. A chalybeate spring has been discov ered at Amherst, Va. A runaway horse in New Orleans dashed into a church. A $25,000 trousseau Is the envy or New York. Eureka, Kansas, is to have a $15,000 school-house. Shark bones have been exhumed in Minnesota. The phosphorescent matter in fishes is asserted to be merely fat. Heavy frosts in North Carolina have injured the tobacco crop. The Cardiff giant is humbugging the people of Kansas City, Mo. The Jackson (Miss.) Fair has been postponed until November 13. A young lady recently betrothed says that "C. 0. D." means Call on Dad ! Raln began on Sunday at San Diego, Cal., and is coming northward. A branch of the "International" So ciety has been established in Boston. There were three deaths from yellow fever on Friday in Charleston, S. C. An American newspaper is to be es taolished at Frankfort, Liermany. Butter is ninety-five cents a pound in Colorado. Another comic weekly has given up the ghost iu London. Chicago wants a torpedo corps added to her fire department. The boys of Burlington, Vt., had a snowballing match last week. Women edit five daily and fourteen weekly papers in Germany. An old lady of seventy is the chaplain of the Kansas State prison. A grave near Gravelotte contains 2,500 corpses. Fifteen hundred saloons furnish Louis yille with local items. Galveston, Texas, has subscribed V2.,347 for the Chicago sufferers. Ohio capitalists are to drain the Clies tatee river, in Georgia, for gold. A boy in Cynthiana, Ky., made eleven partridge quail at one shot. A Frenchman is said to have invented a lamp-wick that will burn for fiveyears. The coffee crop of Ifayti, which is now being gathered, is unusually large. In Idaho Territory the doctors admin ister on the estates of deceased patients. There is said to be a Royal Arch Chap ter of colored Masons in Charleston,S. C. A single county in Tennessee yielded -100,000 bushels of peanuts this year. Cincinnati is proposing the incorpora tion of a company to build a first-class hotel. By the laws of Louisiana a man may moderately ehastize his wife when she deserves it. One Bowery beer garden served up 32.-1,000 glasses of beer in three Summer months. Alexandria is the first manufacturing city iu Virginia, and Richmond the sec ond. John 'Wesley, we are sorry to say. was lately arrested in New Orleans for steal ing a plank. A street-railway scar in Clermany is known as a "Pierdstrasseneisenbahn wagon." The grape crop of the Lake Erie islands this year is estimated ut ten thousand tons. A recent boy-show down South had twenty-ono entries and three old-bache lor judges. Over $lBO,OOO in gold were taken for duties at the Custom House in Boston on Saturday. Cincinnati is threatened with a coal famine, unless the railroad companies reduce their rates. The farmers of California propose to cultivate the Italian sunflower as a sub stitute for the potato. A Georgia woman had one of her ears taken off by a passing locomotive. No other damage. The great fire of London in Ifni broke out on Sunday, like that of Chicago, and burnt for five days. Alexis Alexandrowitseh, the Russian grand duke is not yet twenty-two years of age. The county papers are evenly bal anced as to whether the coming winter will be cold or mild. The big toe of an Alexandria negro was partially gnawed off by the ruts while he slept. An astronomer of Madrid has discov ered a new planet, which he baptized "Conception." A Western lady fainted when her bon net caught tire. No wonder she felt light-headed. Trenton, N. J., expects to have its new work-house completed in about two months. Grading on the Northern Pacific Rail road is now completed as far as the Red River. Bangor, Me., now calls itself " a cen tral emporium on a grand international thoroughfare." The Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce proposes to withdraw its representatives from the National Board of Trade. A teetotal vigilance committee at Bir mingham, England, has been tined for trespass, in trying to break up a saloon. Hawkinsville, Ga., is puzzled to ac count for two different species of pota toes on the same vine. The Pittsburgh Ga:ctte apologizes for printing " wood-shcp hand " where " Good Shepherd " was written. Edward Beming was shot dead by a man named Wallace, in adrunken quar rel, near Sacramento, on Tuesday. Heavy frosts in many counties of North Carolina have played havoc with the tobacco crop in that State. It is stated that Richmond, Va., is to have a new daily Democratic newspa per, entitled The Observer. There is a " pork farm " near Provi dence, It. 1., on which 1,500 head of swine are raised annually. Incendiaries burned the grocery of Thomas & Shaw, Auburn, N. Y., Sun day night. Loss $4,000. In Minnesota the prairie fire has burned through the earth iu some places to the depth of five feet. The best mutton is said to come from Rhoda Island. The value State raises the best turkeys, geese and ducks. There is an enormous apple crop i i the Northwestern States, and a very small one in the Northeastern States. At Rockport, Mass., a few days since, a two-year old boy pulled over apot of boiling coffee and was scalded to death. A ciPrk in the Sixth Auditor's office at Washington, lost his wife and live Aildren hy tie Chicago fire. Over $l,OOO are °tiered for the best bale of eotton at the Alabama fair, which opens at Montgomery on the 3lst inst. James E. Kelley has been sentenced to death at Butialo, New York, for the murder of Charles Rosenfelt Under a recent law, pensions are now paid quarterly, and over s7,o(sysill are required for each quarter. C'arrollton, Louisiana, has secured for herself the Pe;•.Yjctie of a colored Mayor and several colored Councilmen. At a meeting of the Methodists of Cinr cinnati, Tuesday night, it was resolved toralses3o,ooofurtheMethodistchurches in Chicago. An enthusiastic editor, speaking of a new prima donna, says : "Her voice is as soft as a roll of velvet, and as tender as a pair of slop-shop pantaloons. The latest euphuism for red hair is Schenectady cblor ; Schenectady being, as every New f ork railroad traveler knows, a Wile beyond Auburn, Miss Rye is coming to America with 145 children, who are to be provided with comfortable homes with thrifty people on the NVestern Continent. The Mississippi river is so low that the water at New Orleans is per featly Clear. It has fallen thirteen feet below the high water mart of 1802. The lands along the Texas Pacific Railroad, on the line froth Fort Yuma to San Diego, have been withdrawn from market. Two men and two women stole a child from Wesfern avenue, Newburg, yester day; and vent north one. Hudson .siver railway train. The Mohaive Bank, at Great Barring ton, Mass., was robbed of $lB,OOO on Bat uriley night by Wm. 5. Hine, the teper, vim- has AO: The Norwich 'Bulletin thinks that the chief advantage of roasting chestnuts Is the rich and gamey flavor it gives the worm. The deciding game for the base-ball championship between the Athletics, of Philadelphia, and the White Stock ings of Chicago, was played at New York yesterday. It was won by the Athletics by a score of 4 to 1. This gives the Athletics the base-ball cham pionship of the United States. The Defendant Dlnebarded From 114 Criminal Complaint. / Judge Pearson, on Monday,at Harrisburg, delivered his opinion in the case of Geo. O. Evans; who applied to him by a writ of habeas corpus to be discharged from his criminal commitment on a charge of em bezzlement. The Judge discharged Evans in the criminal case, and reduced his bail in the civil case, saying substantially as fol lows : There were two charges against Mr. Evans, the one criminal, the other civil • the one for the embezzlement of 8101,000, on which be was held in default of $35,000 ball; the other on a capias with $400,000 security. He had asked to be discharged from the commitment in the criminal case for the reason that he had not been guilty of any criminal offense, and that the security in the civil suit should be reduced to common bail for personal appearance. On examin ing the commitment in the criminal case it was found to be materially defective, and being dismissed on Friday, the Common wealth was called upon toadduee testimony to show why the prisoner should becommit ted on any criminal warrant. There had been claims against the State and claims by the State against the United States. The latter had remained a long time suspended and practically in part rejected. Regularly accredited agents of Pennsylvania had been unable to obtain credit to the State for any considerable portion thereof. In 1867 an act was passed by the Legislature author izing the Governor to appoint an agent to collect the disallowed and suspended claims against the United States, whose compen sation should not exceed ten per cent. of the amounts collected, to be paid out of such collection. On the someday the Gov ernor gave his commission to George 0. Evans' the defendant, reciting the joint res olution and appointing him such special agent. On the 2-3 d of the same month Mr. Evans signed an agreement to faithfully pay over to the State Treasurer the sums collected, less the comm INSiOU allowed, and to make semi-annual report. It appeared from Mr. Evans' report, read in court by the Com monwealth,that Mr. Evans got credited to the State some one million nine hundred thousand dollars, all of which was arranged by a sot off against the claims of the general Government. This he at once reported to the accounting department, and was re ferred to by Governor Geary in his next annual message to the Legislature. These appeared to have been all the claims then presented by the Commonwealth to the General Government and disallowed and suspended, in the terms of the Joint reso lution, but alterwards Mr. Evaßs discov ered a million or more other claims which hail been overlcuked, and in ISTU obtained a now letter of attorney from the Governor —a more private power, appointing Mr. Evans to collect and receive such claims in accordance with the act of Congress of 1501, which directed the officers of the General Government to pay such claims to the Governors of the States, or to their duly authotized agents. Mr. Evans had reported all the money collected, claiming what he retained as Lis commission at It per cent. There still remain uncollected of these claims some 3300,000. Thu last payment into the treasury was made in 1071, being the balance in his hands, less his Commission of 10 per cent. Apaper was :read from generalHartranft, being his special agreement with Mr. Evans, by which it would appear that general li art ranft spoke of ten per cent being allowed under the act of 1007. Oral testimony of State Treasurer Mack ey and Auditor-General Haryana state. that they had an interview in August last B===DMME=l Clement, but instead of giving hint ten per cent., they contended they bad a right to give him such compensation as they thought proper. Mr. Evans demanded ten per cent. they refused, and, without allow ing him any compensation, demanded his payment to them of VJI,OOO, with interest. Mr. Evans refused, replying that he had ',aid them every cent he had collected from the General Government, less his commis sion at ten per cent., sending a copy of the act of Assembly under which he was act ing. On the :23d of August they settled an account against Mr. Evans, giving him credit for all BUMS paid into the Treasury, and leaving a balance against him of ti:f2l,- 000, giving Idol nothing at all for his ser vices. They testify that they did not allow him any compensation because he had neg lected to pay over the .5'2.91,000 on demand. This evidence, it must be borne in mind, is on the part of the Commonwealth, because the defendant had no right to call witnesses or adduce evidence, The Commonwealth committed a grave and culpable mistake in not paying over what they considered he had a right to in the way of compensation before making a settlement against !MIL— E() had, of course, a lien upon the money in consideration of his claim. The officers would not have the right to pay his coin palmation out of the general treasury Mut without a specific appropriation,and in tha case it would not come of the money col lected as provided in the act of 1067. It ha. been well Nettled in this State, and in near ly all other States of the Union, and in Ci real. 1 ri tai n, that an attorney-at-law or au attorney-in-fact, which the defendant is in every sense of the term, has a right to re tain It compensation out of the funds in his hands, and that he even has a hen upon the papers in his hands until he gets his compensation. In the case of Texas vs. White, it was held that the defendant had not only a right to retain the money, but also the papers of his client. The same law obtains in any branch of business, not only in the legal and medical, but in the busi ness of claim-collecting. Even the usages of the accounting offices have not been pursued, for every county treasurer is per mitted to retain his compensation. In the present case, the defendant may doubtless have claimed too touch, and he was doubt less not entitled to ten per cent, on his col lections under the Governor's power of attorney. Wo aro disposed to think that the claim was high, but that is not now a matter before this Court. They should have settled againsthim,al lowing him such a compensation as they deemed just, when ho could have appealed, and the Court would have decided to what he was entitled. Vo do not propose to re flect upon the State officers, acting under the advice of the Attorney-lieneral, for whom we have great respect. Can the de- fendant be convicted of a crime on the facts alleged before us? If not, we are bound to discharge him. The J udge here quoted the seventy- third section of Revised Purdon, supposed to cover this case. The first ques tion presented is, Is the defendant a State officer? For it cannot- be pretended that he is any other; if he is it is not necessary that he shall have fraudulently embezzled the money. It is sufficient that he prove a defaulter, and refuse to pay over the money to those authorized to receive it.— Did Mr. Evans receive the money In this case as a State officer, or as a special agent; was it obtained as Attorney In fact or Governor DearY under the act of Congress? In common parlance gen erally an agent or attorney is not a State officer. In legal parlance he most certainly is not a State officer. A State or county of ficer is ono by whom the State or county exercises its governmental functions, and Judge Drier declares that special commis sioners, appointed by the Legislature to perform certain duties in the counties aro not State officers. The cams rule would apply her In this country, the term trust, whether to porairm public or private du ties, has never been considered a State of fice, or the holder thereof a State officer. When Mr. Evans' commission is read care fully, it appears lhat. lie is created a special agent. It did not create him a State officer; even if it had it would not affect his posi tion, which apparently closed two years thereafter, and is barred by the statute of limitations, and he could not now tie law fully convicted of that crime. Afterward tie'w chiliN were discovered and Mr. Evans was agshiappoliiusd 4n s.gent by an ordinary , letter of attorney L i, edllect and receive them. This most certainly did not creole him a Slate °nicer, but merely an agent of the blovernor under the act of Congress. Under that power nearly one million of dollars was collected, for which Evans claimed a commission of ten per cent. For this, as we conceive, he had no ailthority in law. lie was not acting under the resolution of 1067, but like any other agent, must be paid so much as his servi ci were reasonably worth, and which be could lawfully retain out of his collections. The act 011067 only applied to claims then pendiug at the Federal 'department, not to the new ones afterwards presented. Such was manifestly the opinion or the Gover nor in issuing the new power of attorney, of Mr. ltvans In accepting It, and of the Auditor-General in his agreement, dated Morel, 30, 1070, which we do not look upon a, a binding contract, although it might well mislead the defendant, coming as it did froln. a 1/10.8tato ftinetionary. Wher ever money Is reeelvealw a priblic cattier and not paid over, it is made embezzle ment withont regard to the method of ren dering the account, Ltut where the officer in good faith claims a portion as his due, and retains no more, it would not be that offense, although It should turn out that he was entitled to a less sum. There can scarcely he a doubt from the whole of the facts proved that the ten per cernum as commission was claimed by Evans iu good faith under the words of the statute, but a large portion of this 1411 , 11 y V 14•1 not re ceived under its provision.. ' • Independent of that, we do not consider that the act of IStii gives him that sum a.s commission in terms, but merely declares that it shall rot be exceeded. let he had plausible ground to claim the whole under the decision of the United States Circuit Court U. S. vs. Moore, SStory, 87, and the common usage under such statutes. That would be strengthened by the letter of the Auditor-Ueneral already cited. On the whole, sitting as a committing magistrate, I would hold the defendant to answer before a jury, who might judge of the bona; fides of :his claim, if he had at the Lime of receiving the money been a State officer. I have also carefully looked through the acts of Assembly to see whether' the defendant's case came within any other Htattito, and called on the prosecution to point out any 'other, in which they and myself have failed. I am, therefore, clearly of the opinion that the defendant has not committed any criminal offense, and ia eutitled to be discharged. The next question arises on the arrest and laolding3o bail in the civil proceeding. prior to the passage of the act of July 12, 1842, abolishing imprisonment for debt, any person could be arrested in this State and held to ball In the amount stated in the praecipo, and endorsed on the capins, without any previous affidavit. The first section of that Act prohibits ar rest in cases arising ex- contractu generally, with certain specified exceptions, among which are "moneys collected by any public officer, or for any misconduct or neglect in office, or in any professional employment, in which cases the remedy shall remain as heretofore." In the present cane Mr. Mackey, the State Treasurer, made an aft-. davit prior to the issuing of the writ, in or der to hold the defendant to bail. Thiel was unnecessary; but we have carefully con sidered all that he says. It was however agreed that we should act on all the facts proved on the hearing. Mr. Mackey says that the defendant was a special agent un der the Act of Assembly, as such received the money as a public officer, to wit: such special agent, and is indebted ' in 52.91,047.11 which he has failed to pay over. We have already decided that the defendant was not a State officer within tho meaning of the criminal law. We do not consider him a public officer for any purpose, and yet he held a qualified official position as a State agent, this especially during his first period of acting as a special agent under the atat • ute. We aro also inclined to believe that he was engaged in a "professional employment" in settling thepublicaccounts, and collecting the money due to the State. Blackstone and many other writers speak of agents, bailiffs and receivers and persons in like situation holding an office. So say some of the law and other dictionaries. We do not consider the words "any profes sional employment," as used in thin act, to apply to the legal, medical and clerical pro fessions alone. We think that it is much broader. A man may follow the business of obtaining pensions, procuring patents, keeping books, or settling public act-smuts; in either of which cases it would bells pro fession. If the defendant took on [dimwif the adjustmem of the accounts between the Slate and the United States, and followed the business for many years under the au thority of the Governor, we oink that It may well be considered his profes sion, and the failure to pay over the money would be a neglect in that professional en, ployment. In such case he cannot be per mitted to put the money in his pocket and walk elf, but may be arrested and hold to bail. The amount thereof it is somewhat difficult to fix in this cave, for although a certain soul is sworn to by the State Treas urer, which Is generally sufficient, yet front the evidence adduced we are satisfied it Is greatly too high. It is evident that the de fendant is entitled to very considerable compensation for his services, which moat be deducted from the State claim. What that 'nay be, must be determined by it jury. It must be borne in mind that security is not required for the money, but merely a special bail fir the appearance of the defend - ant, as was the practice in every ease prior to IS-121 In suiting the sum we do not de termine the amount clue, it may be live, fifty, or one hundred thousand dollars, or more, or nothing; we merely say that this will secure his appearance. • We, therefore, lin the special bail in this case at one hun dred thousand dollars In concluding this Investigation we. can not help expressing our regret that the State officers permitted themsel Yes to be in- Iltrneed by public clamor to depart front the ordinary course pursued in settling public accounts. It was clearly the inter est of the State that they should bo settled under the act or Dili, on notice to the de fendant, allowing hint what would be right by way of compensation, anti striking the balance, which, if not appealed front ht six ty days, would have been cone! naive, 'and if appealed from the State would have had security for its money. The balance thus found dale and unappealed from would have been fixed and determinate as the judg ment of a court, and payment could have been 01Ifyreed by the process of the law, both civil' and criminal. In all thug has been laid before us we have not perceived the slighest evidence of fraud, on the one side or the other ; but it is all ordinary case ietl should have been settled by the law in the usual way. Terrible Klot itt Lox Ault,lon—A in the Chluetie ttuorterti. SAN FRANCISCO, ()Ct. 21.—A terrible riot is going on at Los Atigelos. A tight hay lug occurred in the Chinese quarters, ,rin. cer ltildersor attempted to arrest a China hien, f.r shooting another. lie was resist ed, and he called on Itor.ert Thompson, a citizen, to assist him, when the Chinese oir both sides of the narrow street, opened tire on both of them. Air. Thompson fell, shot through the breast, arid died immediately. °Meer Ifildersor was shot through the shoulder, but succeeded in getting on horseback, and escaped. A :slexican boy, named rise AblllderS, %VIM iris,, shot through the leg. A mob soon repented rind the greatest excitement pre vai hoy attacked the whole (11)110)10,1111)Ctlif, anti were resisted by the Chinese. Vivo hun dred armed men surrounded the Chinese quarters to prevent any from escaping. Fifteen Chinamen wore hung by the mob, and their houses sot oil lire. 'rho lire was, however, extinguished. A cable despatch dated U I'. M., says that order at Los AllgOlUS has been putridly restored and no more bloodshed loot taken place. Several Chinamen have boon ar rested and are lodged in jail. Rill Rinsed, another of the escaped State prisoners from Nevada, was raptured hero this evening, while endeavoring to ship WI a vessel for a foreign port. George I.L. Cannon, a Mormon leader in this city, taking counsel on the prosecution now progressing at Salt Lake, says if the convictions continue the Mormons will burn all they have, and make another ex odus MS they did from Illinois. The holdle. Slighted After traveling all over the country Mr the pt.st friar 1,11101 , 1 and attending the nu orerous raffle shows, horse fairs, and mu ner-stoue celebrations which have been gotten up by the office-seekers in a dozen States, r ran Cs CMISCiOIIVO scorns suddenly to have heroine stricken with sensitiveness, and to-day he writes to the Secretary all., Army of the Cumberland that he canindt attend the annual reunion of this organiza tion in Detroit, on the kith of November. Unifies well-known distrust of the army which worshipped Pap 'Morena, and the dislike of the latter to the hero of the Shiloh defeat, conspired to make this step advL•a rile. Urania unpopularity with this vet eran organization has increased tenfold since the publication of the correspondenne which wasjutended to ,tecompliNti Tip/m7 /Vl' removal before the battle of Nashville, in which correspondence Brant figured hi most disreputable manner. War Preparation!. When Prussia broke the military power of France, by a few well-directed and well, delivered blows, she opened the eyes of all the other nations of Europe, and Induced them to examine their systems of offense. A writer in the Moscow Gazette shows that Russia's weakness lies in her coast de fenses, and her insufficient naval force, Nearly all her ports, including the capital, could be taken with but little difficulty, while her fleet " would not be able to re: sistthe attack of a first-rate power. , En gland has begun a review of her milith t system ; has abolished the purchase et commissions, and in this manner attempt ed to popularize 4he army, and make It more In favor with the masses. In Austria military reforms of great magnitado are being discussed; and other powers are moving in the canoe direction. Even the Sultans has ordered many changes IQ OIL , manner of managing ilk forces; and thus all Europe, instead of traveling wwnr.lti pears, is preparing fur war en n 11111,1 L gi gantic scale. Biondi!), the great tight.ropo seams determined to invent a feat ht Ibis rope-walking which shall finish him at last. At a late performance to he given at Om Crystal Palace at Sydenham—lt had not COll3O off by last accounta—the tall innate that support the rope were to' be covered with fireworks from the ground to the top. When all these were welbgolng, Blondin wan to walk forth on the rope bearing a great piece Of r)yrotooliny "weighing idiotic three hundred pounds," which lie would forthwith proceed to discharge front "the altitnile in the (mitre o f ill. rope." At . Maine time eheilis and mine] vitio id i i N., ploded in every direction, and the telety. tisement announces with much gUslo that Blondin "will thus be encircled with bra for nearly ten iniuntos." Thin Ina barbar. OW{ pertbrulance for the nineteenth cen tury. helmire of st lieorwles hallroad Parties aro seizing the rolling *stock and other pro, o •ty of the Jiro nawick and Al bany railrertl for debts. Tlio iron for tbil road wee, SOlZed at IlronawiLk• halphi. merits Lave been ;lade for sonic time. Kimball's inability is said to lie the result of the Chinago lire, Theft, are ru flora Or repudiation of the Suite bonds hypotheca ted by him. tiov. Bullock seized the road and placed It In the !iambi of Colonel John Scriven, ofigavannall, lie and 8. 11. Brown, attorney for the road, have gone to New York to investigate the affairs of the Com pany, Many rumors are afloat, but noth ing Moro doi t nito tht i a tho above in • Vrenh There Ina limit Woven French ingenuity. in luau-raising. It is puled blo thAt that boundary has been reached, or nearly :rest distress prevails in l'aris,iin account, of the ceaseless drain which the Indoumity paymenbi aro making upon the finances or the country. Already, the Bank of France, which has linked its lertunes insoparatoly with those of the Government, has com menced the Hue of paper currency, lii small notes. ,This is the hoginh,l4 ni series of desperate shifts, and. will: alarmists of the unwignegoine assignst.s,nt the old Rope blio. Meantime, VW.) Utlo,ooo remains unpaid. ! Posh! Arrangement *vlth France Negotiations for a new postal treaty with France aro permanently suspended. About a year ago the Postmaster-General had ar• rangements pending for a postal conceit- Lien, V 41.1831/. "Wing to Ole war. were 1 1103 r, rupted. The French nation - now, tjeaVro..l., to recover as , 'aoon-aa • possible ,frbni Lila losses by war, is raising revenue - by every attainable means, and has 80 Increased the postal rates as to make Wimpractlcable for the United States to agree to any proposi tion in the premises, Anotfaer penuiciat Gainrit. There beikfg a Haiti nible cdunty, ohlu, for the House of ltepregentatives, tots`Wors cast as to who should have the office. The luck was with p."P.l6priggs, the Hethe'; cratio candidate: This gives the Dentocii forty-o 44i. inenihers to the ftadicids 'll4 stilt ou the Itruizi One of the surest signs of the wonderful rapidity with which Chicago is recuperating after her recent great calamity, is the ad vertisements of base ball clubs, for games to come off, etc., which now again:crowd her Journals almost daily.: 11•1011.•••••••••
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